be privy to somethingSECRETsharing in the knowledge of facts that are secret 了解某事的内情,私下知晓某事 Colby was privy to the committee’s decisions. 科尔比知晓委员会的秘密决定。
be privy to something• I was privy to all their discussions on Hardy, as both had known him during the First World War.• Secondly, she would not be privy to any information contained in those letters.• Earl, a classmate of North's from the Naval Academy, was privy to quite a lot, including the diversion.
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